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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: Moris Mensah <mega_mensah@yahoo.ca>
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 16:52:13 -0500 (EST)
Subject: JOINT VENTURE..Brian


FROM THE DESK OF THE MANAGER,
BILL AND EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT,
COMMERCE BANK
DBT BUILDING 156 GOVERNMENT ESTATE
LOME TOGO.

ATTN/PLS

I am Engr.Moris Mensah, the manager of bills and exchanges at the foreign remittance Department of COMMERCE BANK LOME TOGO. I am writing following the information about you through International web directory and wish I know you are capable and reliable person to champion this business opportunity.In my department, we discovered an abandoned sum of USD 14.5 m ,(Fourteen million,five hundred thousand United State dollars). in an alloted vault in the bank, that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died On 25th July 2000, Germany lost 96 passengers that were flying to New York to join a Caribbean cruise organized by Deilmann on a Concorde Flight AF4590.Visit the below link for further detail on the disaster which "shattered and stunned" Germany.You can go through the website below,

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/851119.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/concorde/story/0,7369,347596,00.html

Since we got informations about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claims his money because we cannot release it unless somebody apply for it as next of kin or relation to the late customer as indicated in our banking guidelines and laws but unfortunately we learnt that all his surpposed next-of-kin or relation died along side with him at the plane crash leaving no body behind for the claim.

It is therefore upon this discovery that I and other officials in our institution now decided to make this business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next-of-kin or relation to the late customer for safety and subsequent disbursement, since no body is coming for it and we don't want this money to go into the Bank treasury unclaimed.

The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after four to five years, the money will be transfered into the bank treasury as unclaimed fund The request for a foreigner as next-of-kin in this business is occassioned by the act that the customer was a foreigner and a Togoleise can not stand as next-of-kin to a foreigner.

We agree that 30 % of this money will be for you as foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account, 10% will be set aside for expenses incured during this business and 60 % would be for me and my colleagues.
Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or e-mail, the text of the application you will transcribe as your order and send to the bank. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is hitch free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer.

Please do send the following information of yours so that we can kick up this mutual business transaction.
1.Full Name
2.Phone/Fax Number
3.Address.
4.Nationality.
5.Occupation.
6.Date of Birth.
Your immediate reply will be highly appreciated.
Yours faithfully,
Engr.Moris Mensah











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